I may be onto something with this description of the morning thing. Then again, maybe Fleming just has a penchant for it. Second one from the same book, still pretty good.
In this one, James Bond is in Saratoga, New York with Felix Leitner. They are is going out early to watch the horses warm up.
“They leant against the rail, thinking about the early morning, and about breakfast, and the sun suddenly caught the trees half a mile away on the other side of the track and brushed the topmost branches with pale gold, and in minutes the last shadows had gone and it was day.”
Ian Fleming – Diamonds are Forever
I like the last phrase, “and in minutes the last shadows had gone and it was day.” Just like that. Boom. Day. A long run on sentence about pale gold light in tree branches, then daytime. Fun sentence.
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